page_title: Mount Olympus (Cyprus)
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Olympus (Cyprus)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Cyprus - Cave of 318 Fathers 5 uitzicht
context_page_description: Olympus, or Chionistra, at 1,952 metres, is the highest point in Cyprus. It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Mount Olympus peak and the "Troodos Square" fall under the territory of Platres in Limassol District. A British long range radar currently operates at Mount Olympus' peak.
  The Mount Olympus Ski resort consists of the Sun Valley and North Face areas. Each area has its own ski lifts and runs, operated by the Cyprus Ski Club:
  Aphrodite or Sun Valley I, with a 125m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
  Hermes or Sun Valley II, with a 140m T-bar ski lift and intermediate-level slopes
  Dias/Zeus or North Face I, with a 380m chairlift and advanced-level slopes
  Hera or North Face II, with a 262m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
  In the Sun Valley area there is a 55m rope tow baby lift as well.
  Writing in the late first century BC or first century AD, the geographer Strabo reported that on one of its promontories was a temple to Aphrodite Acraea which means Aphrodite of the Heights, which women were forbidden to enter.
context_section_description: Olympus, or Chionistra, (Greek: Όλυμπος or Greek: Χιονίστρα) at 1,952 metres (6,404 ft), is the highest point in Cyprus. It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.  Mount Olympus peak and the "Troodos Square" fall under the territory of Platres in Limassol District. A British long range radar currently operates at Mount Olympus' peak.
  The Mount Olympus Ski resort consists of the Sun Valley and North Face areas. Each area has its own ski lifts and runs, operated by the Cyprus Ski Club:
  Aphrodite or Sun Valley I, with a 125m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
  Hermes or Sun Valley II, with a 140m T-bar ski lift and intermediate-level slopes
  Dias/Zeus or North Face I, with a 380m chairlift and advanced-level slopes
  Hera or North Face II, with a 262m T-bar ski lift and beginner-level slopes
  In the Sun Valley area there is a 55m rope tow baby lift as well.
  Writing in the late first century BC or first century AD, the geographer Strabo reported that on one of its promontories was a temple to Aphrodite Acraea (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτης Ἀκραίας) which means Aphrodite of the Heights, which women were forbidden to enter.
caption: Mount Olympus in Winter
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